Imam Shamil Foundation, a foundation for supporting the Culture, Traditions and Languages of Dagestan. Makhachkala: IIAE DNC RAS, 2010, 155 p. (in Russian) The reviewed book was published by the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Dagestan Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Foundation for Support of Culture, Traditions and Languages of Dagestan. One of the authors, Professor T. M. Aitberov, is known for his research on various regions and ethnic groups of Dagestan. His fundamental work on Hunzakh is widely known among the scientific community and needs no special introduction (Aitberov, 1990). The reviewed paper contains epigraphic material from Yelisu and Kakha, Belokan and Zakatal, and documents from the first half of the 17th century. in Persian from these places, epistles of the Sultans of Elisui to various authors dating from the XVIII century, rare maps and cartographic material of the XIX century. Most of these documents were found by the authors of the book personally in Yelisu itself and the surrounding villages. The appendices contain transcripts and translations of the texts of the Kusur tombstone (presumably the second half of the XII century), the Tarasan inscription of the same period, the Kusur Persian inscription of the first half of the XIII century, the message in Persian of Gazisultan-Shamkhal (XVI century) to the inhabitants of the village of Tsakhur, a photo of the seal of Gazisultan with the date 906 AH (1500-1501 A.D.), a translation of the little-known manuscript "History of Maz" (first half of the XVIII century), the text of the tombstone of Muhammad, son of Ali of Keleb (late XVII century), the message of Aslangirei Khan of Crimea to the inhabitants of Tlenseruh-Avars (first half of the XVIII century) and a list of 35 manuscripts of various contents from the Kusur mosque. Of particular value is the field material collected by T. M. Aitberov and Sh. M. Khapizov in the Zakatal and Ka ... Читать далее